Question

. What are the two sides of the Social Contract and what are the responsibilities of both sides under that contract?

Answer 1

Citizens will give up some rights in exchange for government protection

Answer 2

Hobbes's social contract theory serves double duty: as (1) a political theory that justifies the existence of a government and (2) a moral theory that specifies our moral obligations. They must agree to establish society by collectively and reciprocally renouncing the rights they had against one another in the State of Nature.